“WAGs... That's a technical term we engineers use. It means 'Wild-Assed Guess'.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“I am an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy, Sir—" Venizelos felt an undeniable rush of adrenaline and pleasure as he faced the burly captain squarely "—and the Royal Manticoran Navy does not 'bluff.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“McKeon: “You know Hauptman is going to deny they had anything to do with it [smuggling].”
“Forty-three million in illegal peltries? Of course they will, just as Mondragon's captain insists the space fairies must have brought them,” Honor said ironically.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“They could hate her guts all they liked as long as they did their duty.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“Fail not in this charge at your peril.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“Manticore System's G0 primary and its G2 companion were dim behind her, reduced to two more stars amid millions, for the Junction lay almost seven light-hours from them.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“But Haven had become a threat. After almost two T-centuries of deficit spending to shore up an increasingly insolvent welfare state, Haven had decided it had no choice but to turn conquistador to acquire the resources it needed to support its citizens in the style to which they had become accustomed, and the People's Navy had proven its capacity to do just that over the course of the last five decades.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“one of the first signs of a self-destructing aboriginal culture always seems to be an increase in the use of drugs and intoxicants,”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“But every time I told myself one lie, I had to tell another to justify the ones that came before it.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“If one of her officers needed reprimanding, she would attend to it in private, just as she made it a point to deliver praise in public.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“That thought let her banish the grin at last, because if independent command was what every good officer craved, a captain all alone in the big dark had no one to appeal to. No one to take the credit or share the blame, for she was all alone, the final arbiter of her ship's fate and the direct, personal representative of her queen and kingdom, and if she failed that trust no power in the galaxy could save her.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“Whatever it took, she would discharge her own duties and meet her own responsibilities. Not just to protect her career, but because they were her duties and responsibilities.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it,”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
“All right, Chief Killian." She allowed herself an airy gesture at the forward visual display. "That away—full military power.”
― David Weber, quote from On Basilisk Station
David Weber
Born place: in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
Born date October 24, 1952
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"And that, my lord?"
"Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.”
― Margaret Craven, quote from I Heard the Owl Call My Name
“The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from The Years of Rice and Salt
“She wiggled until her nose and mouth found a pocket of air. After a few deep breaths, she realized her precious pocket of air was the crevice between his legs. Wonderful. She was doing heavy breathing on his crotch.”
― Kerrelyn Sparks, quote from How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
“All right. Since the world is about to end, why not give an impossible jailbreak one last try?”
― Brandon Mull, quote from Fablehaven: The Complete Series Boxed Set
“If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and an endless barrage of ridicule and insults. It feels like the only thing I can count on right now. I don’t want something dumb like respect and affection getting in the way.”
― Michael Buckley, quote from The Inside Story
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